Ouvrage de Sainte-Agnès

Om museet

The Sainte-Agnès fortress work was built between 1932 and 1938 on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Franco-Italian border. It is one of the last defensive works of the Maginot Line and watched over a strategic sector of the Alpes-Maritimes.

The fort is entirely underground: its galleries and rooms, covering more than 2,000 m², are dug beneath more than 55 meters of rock below the village. It could house about 350 men and operate independently thanks to its own power station, heating, telephone network, air-regulation system and a room for neutralizing gases.

The fortress work’s artillery played a defensive role during the fighting of June 1940. Today the site can be visited only with a guide, who explains how the garrison lived and how the installations worked. Three former ammunition rooms house exhibitions on the history of the fortress work.

Højdepunkter

• Underground galleries of more than 2,000 m², dug beneath 55 m of rock
• Original installations: power station, heating, ventilation and gas-neutralization room
• Exhibitions in three former ammunition rooms
• Guided tour through the garrison’s corridors
• Maginot Line fortress work near the Italian border

Permanent udstilling

• Visite guidée de l'ouvrage Maginot – Guided route through the underground galleries, with exhibitions on the history of the fortress work in three former ammunition rooms.

Entrépriser & rabatter

Online booking through the ticket office of the Menton, Riviera & Merveilles Tourist Office. The price includes admission and the guided tour.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

Reduced rate for children aged 4 to 14; no specific family offer is published.

Transport & parkering

Address: 1 place du Fort, 06500 Sainte-Agnès.

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